栓Q (shuānQ): (internet slang) thank you (moc…

Meanings

1 (internet slang) thank you (mock-sarcastic)
2 thanks, I hate it
3 I'm done / speechless

Characters

栓

shuān

bolt; plug (phonetic only here)

Q

(Roman letter, homophone for 'you' in 'thank you')

Examples

加班到凌晨，栓Q。

Jiābān dào língchén, shuān Q.

Working overtime until dawn — thanks, I hate it.

这个作业太难了，栓Q 老师。

Zhège zuòyè tài nán le, shuān Q lǎoshī.

This homework is too hard — 'thank you' teacher.

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history

Originated in 2022 from a viral Douyin video by Guangxi farmer Liu Tao (@刘涛teacher), whose heavily-accented English 'thank you' sounded like 栓Q (shuān Q). The phrase went mega-viral and evolved from literal 'thank you' into a sarcastic 'I give up / done with this'.

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Extremely casual, playful-sarcastic. 栓Q is one of the defining memes of 2022 Chinese internet culture — expect to see it in captions, comments, and parody songs. Not for formal use.